How can I retrieve the page title of a webpage using Python?

Question

How can I retrieve the page title of a webpage (title html tag) using Python?

Answer 1

Using lxml...

Getting it from page meta tagged according to the Facebook opengraph protocol:

import lxml.html.parse
html_doc = lxml.html.parse(some_url)

t = html_doc.xpath('//meta[@property="og:title"]/@content')[0]

or using .xpath with lxml:

t = html_doc.xpath(".//title")[0].text